Foursquare | Image Source : Socialmediaexaminer.com Smart businesses are taking Foursquare’s geo-location game to the bank. Foursquare is quickly becoming this year’s Twitter. As the number of iPhones, Blackberrys and Android phones explodes in the marketplace, more and more consumers are “checking in” with geo-location social games

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Foursquare : Geo-Location Game for Cashing in on Checking in

Nokia and BlackBerry-maker RIM continued to lead the smartphone market in the second quarter, but it was Android-running phones from HTC, Samsung and others that aggressively drove up sales figures, IDC reports. IDC has seconded recent second-quarter smartphone sales estimates that device shipment numbers have been soaring upward, with particular momentum coming from handsets running Google’s Android mobile operating system. The overall smartphone market grew 50 percent year over year, IDC reported Aug.

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Android Smartphones Pressured Nokia and BlackBerry-maker RIM

Image Source : Kodukup.com The Kodu Kup is a KODU GAME LAB game design competition for students aged 9 – 14 in participating schools across Australia, Malaysia and Singapore Key Dates : July 19th 2010 – Competition Opens August 20th 2010 – Competition Closes August 27th 2010 – Winners Notified Entry to the Kodu Kup 2010 is by invitation to participating schools in Australia, Malaysia and Singapore by Microsoft. Participating schools are those that have participated in teacher training for Kodu, provided by ideaslab (in a formal training class or using web-based training materials) or Science Centre Singapore, and subsequently invited to participate in the Competition

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Kodu Kup – KODU GAME LAB Game Design Competition for Students

Image Source : developies.wordpress.com Many people wonder why Google didn’t manage to build successful social services. Orkut’s success is limited to Brazil and India, iGoogle’s social gadgets aren’t popular, Friend Connect isn’t widely used, Google Buzz has a lot of potential, but not much success.

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Google Operating System: Google and the Value of Social Networking

London: Computer scientists in the U.S. are developing technology that will transform cars into intelligent vehicles fitted with aircraft-style black boxes that can record information about driving behavior during accidents.

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Smart cars with black boxes

Adult Sites Domain Name | Image Source : For some time now, many groups have called for a special .xxx domain that clearly designates pornographic content on the Internet. How easy would it be to simply filter everything in the so-called “Internet Red-Light District?” Now that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ( ICANN ) has tentatively agreed to create such a top-level domain, don’t go dumping your content filters just yet. .XXX domain: A bit like Amsterdam…only different So here’s what this development boils down to for schools, parents, and anyone else who wants to regulate how much pornography kids see online: nothing.

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.XXX Domain Name : One Step Closer to Reality; Bad for Kids? Good for Whom?

Even the running in place games were one at a time, though the river rafting and mining cart games (both with a similar mechanic of jumping and ducking through an obstacle course while picking up tokens) could be played with two people …

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New Kinect XBOX 360 Slim: Microsoft New Kinect XBOX 360 Slim …

Image Source : WarnerBros.com The movie giant is being sued after allegations that it stole DRM intellectual property from another company. In an effort to combat cyberspace piracy, movie companies  have begun aggressively going after both the sites that provide access to illegal downloads and their customers as well.   In their latest efforts, some are incorporating digital rights technology to help restrict the use of their digital content online.

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Warner Brothers Accused of Using Pirated Anti-Piracy Technology

Internet Protocol version 6 | Image Source : veed.in Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the next-generation Internet Protocol version designated as the successor to IPv4, the first implementation used in the Internet  that is still in dominant use currently[update]. It is an Internet Layer protocol for packet-switched internetworks. The main driving force for the redesign of Internet Protocol is the foreseeable IPv4 address exhaustion

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Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the next-generation Internet Protocol

Robots and Rockets Maker Faire | Image Source : Makerfaire.com Maker Faire is the stuff of legends: Robots, rocket ships, pyrotechnics, dragons, vehicles for land and sea, and ever so much more. Even if your interests aren’t roughly aligned with those of a four-year-old boy, Maker Faire is still pretty cool

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Robots and Rockets: A Tour of Maker Faire